Shane, I am sorry if I came off as a jerk, from your original comments I thought that a real taxidermist did the work for you. The point of my comments was that if a paid taxidermist did the work and you were not satisfied you should have refused the skull until the taxidermist made it right. I learned long ago never to trust a trophy to a family friend who is doing is as a deal, it cost me the biggest smallmouth I have ever caught.